Child s carriage



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P. ISELI.

OHILDS CARRIAGE.

No. 395,277. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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FREDERICK ISELI, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

CHILDS CARREAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,277, dated December 25, 1888. Application filed October 15, 1888. Serial No. 288,062- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ISELI, of Yonkers, VVestchester county, New York, have invented a new and Improved Childs Carriage, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a childs folding carriage with jointed front and rear axles. These axles can be folded together with the carriage-body. When the carriage is opened for use, the axles are held down by springs, which prevent collapse.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement, more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved ehilds carriage. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom View of the carriage-body. Fig. 4: is a vertical transverse section on line so 00, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a similar section showing the carriage folded.

The letter a represents the carriage-body, composed of rigid or flexible sides and of flexible endsthat is, the front and rear of the carriage-body should be made of some textile fabric or equivalent material that may be folded. The body a rests upon a pair of longitudinal bars, I), riveted thereto and having a slot near each end, as shown in Fig. 3. The slots are engaged by headed pins 0, projecting upwardly from the ends of a pair of diagonal bars, (1. These bars cross each other at their center, where they are perforated for the reception of a screw-bolt, e. A nut, f, on this screw-bolt bears against the lowermost bar, (Z, and by tightening up this nut the bars may be locked in their distended position. \Vhen the carriage is to be folded, the nut is loosened and the bars are thus permitted to approach with their ends the pins 0, traveling meanwhile along their slots.

g g are the two sections of the carriage-bottom. These sections are hinged at their sides to the carriage-body and at their center to one another, Fig. 4:. A catch, h, on one of the sections g, engaging a hook, 71., on the opposite section, locks the bottom when the sections are lowered, Fig. 2. This catch, together with the nut f, prevents any spontaneous collapse.

t' i are the front and rear axles of the carriage. Each of these axles is jointed, being composed of two halves connected by hinge e". To one of the sections of axle 4. there is secured a lug, j, to which there is attached one end of a spring, 7c, the other end of which is affixed to one of the sections of bottom 9. The spring exerts a pressure dowm ard upon the axle and keeps it distended. In order to protect the spring and prevent its being bent, I insert into it loosely a rod, 111, which is a little shorter than the spring and passes centrally through the same. This rod is held in place by the coils of the spring.

02 is the front cross-bar of the carriagebody, and n is the rear cross-bar, the latter carrying the handle 11 Each bar a n is pivoted to the carriagebody at one end, and is hook-shaped at the other end, so as to embrace a pin, 1). The shank of this pin is surrounded by a spring, q, that draws the head of the pin inward that is, toward the carriage-body. Thus the free end of bar n and n will be clamped be tween the carriage-body and the pin-head, and automatic unlocking of the bar is prevented.

To collapse the carriage, the bars a n are thrown up, the catch h is opened, and the nut f is loosened. The two sides of the carriage may then be brought close to one another, as shown in Fig. 5.

It will be seen that this carriage has all the advantages of an axle-carriage in contradistinction to a side-bar carriage and may still be readily folded.

What I claim is 1. The combination of a carriage-body, a with the sectional axles t', having hinges 2" and with the sprin 7c secured to such axles substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a carriage-body, a, with the slotted bars I), diagonal bars (Z, pins 0, and with the screw-bolt e and nut j, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of a carriage-body, a, with the sectional axles 2,1ugsj, springs k, and rods m, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of a carriage-body, a, with the cross-bars a n, pivoted at one end and hook-shaped at the other end, and with the pins p and springs q, substantially as specified.

FREDERICK ISELI. \Vitnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J ONGHMANS. 

